Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

— Aldous Huxley

2. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

— Aldous Huxley

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3. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

4. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

— Aldous Huxley

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5. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

— Aldous Huxley

6. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

— Aldous Huxley

7. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

8. “Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”

— Aldous Huxley

9. “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

— Aldous Huxley

10. “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

— Aldous Huxley

11. “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

— Aldous Huxley

12. “Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.”

— Aldous Huxley

13. “Dream in a pragmatic way.”

— Aldous Huxley

14. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

— Aldous Huxley

15. “No social stability without individual stability.”

— Aldous Huxley

16. “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

— Aldous Huxley

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17. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

— Aldous Huxley

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18. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley

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19. “In life, man proposes, God disposes.”

— Aldous Huxley

20. “Experience teaches only the teachable.”

— Aldous Huxley

21. “Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”

— Aldous Huxley

22. “It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”

— Aldous Huxley

23. “I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”

— Aldous Huxley

24. “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

— Aldous Huxley

25. “All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

— Aldous Huxley

26. “The more you know, the more you see.”

— Aldous Huxley

27. “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.”

— Aldous Huxley

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28. “The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.”

— Aldous Huxley

29. “I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty.”

— Aldous Huxley

30. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

— Aldous Huxley

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31. “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

— Aldous Huxley

32. “If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”

— Aldous Huxley

33. “The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”

— Aldous Huxley

34. “A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

— Aldous Huxley

35. “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

— Aldous Huxley

36. “If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.”

— Aldous Huxley

37. “Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.”

— Aldous Huxley

38. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

39. “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

— Aldous Huxley

40. “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

— Aldous Huxley

41. “A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

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42. “Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

— Aldous Huxley

43. “When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”

— Aldous Huxley

44. “An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.”

— Aldous Huxley

45. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

— Aldous Huxley

46. “I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.”

— Aldous Huxley

47. “Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”

— Aldous Huxley

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48. “For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”

— Aldous Huxley

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49. “Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.”

— Aldous Huxley

50. “Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”

— Aldous Huxley

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